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Eagle Strong. Southwest Miami High School. Open House 11 th Grade Parent Meeting. Junior Year Expectations. Be ready to meet scholarship requirements PSAT Community Service College Entrance Testing Requirements SAT ACT Grades Should be toughest year academically
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Eagle Strong Southwest Miami High School Open House 11th Grade Parent Meeting
Junior Year Expectations • Be ready to meet scholarship requirements • PSAT • Community Service • College Entrance Testing Requirements • SAT • ACT • Grades • Should be toughest year academically • Greatest weight placed on this year’s performance • Start looking at colleges/universities
Tests that are a Must!A quick Timeline • PSAT Wednesday, October 15, 2014 • Only those students who registered will test. • National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT) • National Hispanic Recognition Program • SAT should be taken by all juniors in the Spring • Reasoning • Given by CollegeBoard: www.collegeboard.com • ACT should be taken by all juniors in the Spring • Knowledge • Given by ACT: www.act.org • SAT v. ACT: Try both! • You may be surprised by which test you do best in.
Honors/Gifted/AP: Grading Scales Note: Under the new calculation, GPAs will show lower than previous years but closer to what colleges arrive at when THEY calculate GPAs.
AP COURSES OFFERED • ENGLISH LITERATURE & COMPOSITION • ENGLISH LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION • CAPSTONE: SEMINAR • CALCULUS AB • CALCULUS BC • STATISTICS • COMPUTER SCIENCE A • BIOLOGY • CHEMISTRY • PHYSICS 1 • PHYSICS C: MECHANICS • ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE • WORLD HISTORY • UNITED STATES HISTORY • US GOVERNMENT & POLITICS • MACROECONOMICS • EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUMAN GEOGRAPHY • PSYCHOLOGY • SPANISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE • SPANISH LITERATURE & CULTURE • STUDIO ART: 2D-DESIGN • STUDIO ART: 3D-DESIGN • STUDIO ART: DRAWING
Bright Futures & Other Scholarship criteria • Based on GPA of core classes • 4 each English, Mathematics, • 3 each Science, Social Science • 2 World Languages + Addt’l Core Classes • SAT/ACT scores • Community Service: 100 hours • Scholarships • mostly Senior Year, exceptthose for summer programs
What do colleges want? • Rigorous curriculum all four years • Students who have challenged themselves • Well rounded • Community Service • Ethics/Discipline
What we want our parents to remember … • Keep your sense of humor • Trust that you have done an amazing job • You do have great kids • Be realistic • Integrity, respect, and citizenship leads to excellence
What’s Happening at SW? • School Website • Sweagles.org • Like us on Facebook • www.facebook.com/ SouthwestMiamiHigh • Follow us on Twitter • www.twitter.com/SouthwestEagles
Advanced Academics InformationContact Jessica sotorrioJsotorrio@dadeschools.net(305) 274-0181 ext: 2249Thank you for Joining Us. we look forward to working with you!